South Shore TrailsAbigail Adams State Park
Abigail Adams State Park sits on land that once housed a car dealership and a marine dredging operation, before being designated a state park in 2016. It is part of…
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AJ Mceachern Memorial Trail
This scenic network of easy trails winds through Driftway Conservation Park with multiple route options perfect for families and walkers of all abilities. The main AJ Memorial Path covers about…
Alton Smith Reserve + Sleeper Conservation Area
Alton Smith Reserve is a 103-acre retired cranberry bog in Hanson, surrounded by walking trails and wetlands, with a Natural Resource Conservation Service restoration program currently underway to return the…
Ames Nowell State Park
Ames Nowell is a 600 acre year-round day use area with most of the recreational activity centered around Cleveland Pond. The pond is very popular with boaters and fisherman. Development…
Ashdod Forest + Matthews Bog
Duxbury's Ashdod Forest offers trails through 244 acres of dense woodland and wetlands along Keene's Brook, including a section of the Bay Circuit Trail, with occasional stream crossings and old…
Bare Cove Park
Bare Cove Park consists of 484 acres along the Weymouth Back River in Hingham. The park is a hidden gem for South Shore residents. The park has been designated as…
Bates Lane Conservation Area
The Bates Lane network of trails is a hidden treasure in Scituate. I'm embarrassed that I did not know it existed until recently. Each of the 6 trails is unique…
Bay Farm Trails
The Bay Farm trail is an 80 acre land preserve located in Duxbury along the Kingston Bay. The acerage is comprised of land owned by Kingston, Duxbury, and the state.…
Beaver Brook Playground
Despite its name, Beaver Brook Playground actually sits on the Shumatuscacant River, not Beaver Brook -- that waterway is elsewhere in Abington entirely. This 12.5-acre, recently renovated (2022) property behind…
Beaver Dam Conservation Area
Plymouth's Beaver Dam Conservation Area spans roughly 783 acres, with sweeping views of Little Island Pond and Great Island Pond that draw both anglers and birdwatchers. Much of the property…
Berrybrook Fields
For a glimpse of Duxbury's agricultural past, check out these rolling green fields on Winter Street. This tree-lined 40-acre property features a small drumlin hill at its center, with some…
Billington Street Park
Plymouth's 4-acre Billington Street Park centers on a charming red wooden covered bridge over Town Brook, with a grassy picnic area, interpretive signage, and two rain gardens. The site marks…
Birch Street Playground/Marcus Ford Park
Pembroke's Birch Street Playground and Marcus Ford Park features a large, fenced-in playground with play structures for both younger and older children, plus swings, slides, and a climbing web. A…
Black Cat Preserve
Plymouth's Black Cat Preserve is a 63-acre woodland with pond views and roughly 3 miles of trails, including a genuinely challenging esker climb, plus three abandoned cranberry bogs slowly returning…
Blackwater Memorial Forest
Nearly 46 acres of pine-oak forest, acidic peatlands, and a 4-acre fallow cranberry bog make up Kingston's Blackwater Memorial Forest, purchased by the town in March 2022 through a right-of-first-refusal…
Bonney Hill Trail
The Bonney Hill Trail offers a rare glimpse of Hanson's agricultural past. A wide, 1.1-mile woodland trail leads along the base of Bonney Hill, past the former Plymouth County Hospital…
Bouve Conservation Area
Bouve Conservation is a 32 acre preserve located along Hewitts Cove in Hingham. The area was acquired from the Bouve family in 1980. Currently the park is owned and managed…
Bradford Torrey Bird Sanctuary
Bradford Torrey Bird Sanctuary is a genuinely substantial property, over a hundred acres with more than three miles of trails, centered on a 2.5-mile yellow-blazed loop with numerous blue-blazed spur…
Braintree Town Forest
Braintree Town Forest is an 85-acre property in the Braintree Highlands with a well-marked, 3.5-mile color-coded trail network and views of Cranberry Brook. The blue trail leads from the parking…
Brass Kettle Conservation Area
Brass Kettle Conservation trails are located off King Street in Cohasset. The land was officially acquired by the town of Cohasset in 2008 to complete the protection of Lily Pond,…
Brewer Reservation
Brewer Reservation in Hingham links directly to Cassidy Field and Ridgewood Reservation, and combined with More-Brewer Park just across the street, the two properties add up to nearly 5 miles…
Broadway Wells Trails
The Broadway Wells Trails are part of Hanover's ongoing Greenway project, an ambitious effort to link roughly 1,760 acres of scattered town-owned recreation land into one continuous hiking network. The…
Brockton Audubon Preserve
This 126-acre preserve protects a diverse forest featuring red maple swamps, vernal pools, and nearly 2 miles of well-maintained trails with boardwalks over wetlands. A striking 20-foot glacial erratic (a…
Burns Memorial Park
Burns Memorial Park is a pretty, 26-acre property with a 0.56-mile out-and-back trail (with a loop at the end) through open woodland -- stone walls, rocky outcroppings, flowering shrubs, wetlands,…
Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area
Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area, spanning Hanson and Halifax, is a genuinely massive property managed by the state as fisheries and wildlife habitat, with 10 miles of walking trails around…
Caddy Memorial Park
Caddy Memorial Park is a small property on Gull Island, part of the Quincy Shore Reservation, with a shaded 0.33-mile trail -- paved from the parking area to a footbridge,…
Camp Kiwanee
Camp Kiwanee is a historic town-owned campground and function venue on Maquan Pond in Hanson, with wooded trails and a genuinely storied past. It opened in 1930 as Camp Kiwanis,…
Camp Nekon
Kingston's Camp Nekon is a 240-acre forested parcel with several ponds and wetlands, at least 2 miles of trails and unpaved roadways, and a small undeveloped canoe/kayak launch on Smelt…
Camp Wing Conservation Area
Camp Wing Conservation Area protects a 450 acre, two mile stretch of stream habitat along the South River in Duxbury. Several rare or uncommon species of plants and animals are…
Canoe Club Preserve
Canoe Club Preserve is a quick half mile loop trail located right off Rt 139 in Pembroke. The trail is a perfect addition to a weekend or weekday as it…
Carolina Hill Reservation
Carolina Hill Reservation is Marshfield's largest conservation property at 775 acres, known to some locals as "The High T's." A network of well-established, if unmarked, trails climbs the summit and…
Carter Beal Conservation Area
Carter Beal's mile-and-a-half loop trail begins at a small parking area on Bournedale Road in Bourne. Head right from the lot to follow the Herring River, or left for a…
Carter Preserve
Kingston's 18-acre Carter Preserve features a 1-mile network of trails, with old bog roads offering views of upland forest, wetlands, and a stream, along with retired cranberry bogs. Also known…
Cato’s Ridge Preserve
Cato's Ridge Preserve is a 105-acre property in Plympton combining Cato's Ridge, Churchill Park, and O'Neil Marsh into a 2-mile network of woodland trails, most of them named for nearby…
Cavern Rock Park
Weymouth's Cavern Rock Park is an unusually rocky 36-acre property, acquired by the town in 1968, that stands out for its challenging 0.7-mile loop trail winding through an oak forest…
Center Hill Preserve
Plymouth's Center Hill Preserve is a 98-acre property fronting Cape Cod Bay, split by Center Hill Road into two distinct halves. Center Hill West is thickly wooded upland with narrow,…